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Hello On a Windows 2003 SP1 R2 machine I get an error message when I try to access the "Removable Storage" MMC snapin in the Computer Managment console. The error is: "Access is denied. This snapin's display may be inconsistent with the Removable Storage Service. If the problem persists prease restart the snapin." I am an administrator. I have restarted the Removeable Storage service I have searched Google and tried the one suggestion I found there. How do I restart a snapin? Have any of you seen this problem? Do you have any suggestions for fixes? Thanks

Google Chrome gives you more time for the other things in life Cnet Asia, CA - 8 minutes ago ... I can't help noticing how Microsoft seems to churn out heavier softwares eg Windows Vista to replace Windows XP, where as Google produces lighter ones. ... More...

Had a strange problem today. I have a DVD recorder, use for TV shows. I often would make one, then copy it to the drive on my laptop to watch at work with my XP machines. The way I did was right click, copy all the files, the VOB files could be clicked on and it would play with WMP. Well tried it with this Vista and it caused a huge crash. Files would not play, tried to delete and it crashed. Restarted machine, deleted the files one at a time, then when I tried to empty the recycle bin, another lock up. I tried several times, tried restore, nothing would work. I finally had to format the damn machine and set it back up. This time put the DVD in just to pla…

Hello, I I have an XP Pro system that is a member of a Domain managed by Server 2003 Standard. Apparently before my time it was also a member of an old domain and was setup to sync to the old server. That server no longer exists but during log of the system will try to sync to the old server and fail but syncs to the new server and succeeds. I have searched far and wide on the Internet and have not found a solution. Either it is staring me in the face or I am the first with this problem (am I lucky or what?) Any ideas -- Owen K

Sys-Con Italia (Comunicati Stampa) Cloud Computing Expo - Google Chrome & Browser War III Sys-Con Italia (Comunicati Stampa) - 6 minutes ago (http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/) Making the best of things, Google said Chrome will initially run only on Windows Vista and XP. ... More...

If a user has KB951748 installed, their USB printers will no longer connect properly to Terminal Services. Usually not even showing up as an available printer on the server. When they log off their PC will hang for several minutes. After logging off their printer will show on the server as still connected. While they are connected the printer does not show up. restarting the print spooler does clear out the old connections. If they untick printers under resources before doing the RDP connection then they logg off normally with no hang. If KB951748 is uninstalled the problem goes away until autoupdate puts it back in. Service Pack 3 appears to h…

The last time you posted this question, a week or two ago, I recommended you use the Belarc Advisor at: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html and look at "main circuit board". Someone suggested that it's dangerous spyware. I don't think so. And neither do most responsible, reasonable people. I still recommend that you use the Belarc Advisor. Milt Someone "unknown" wrote: >

Windows 7: Can Microsoft get boot time to under 15 seconds? ZDNet Blogs - 25 minutes ago The much-touted official “Engineering Windows 7´´ blog has provided a lot of words about how Microsoft developers think about building an operating system ... More...

Hello, I've successfully installed SPA 2.0 on a domain controler to troubleshoot Active Directory issues. But, the tool fails to generate the report after data collection. The current report view show the following error message : "This report does not contain useful information due to a bad data collection. Please refer to the help for more information." However, I've found a file named "incomplete_report.xml" in the report directory... There is information neither in the help file, nor in the windows logs. I've used Process Monitor to check for denied access. Everything is fine though. Any Help appreciated. TIA. Olivier MATROT.

Hi, We're running office 2003 sp3 on windows 2003 terminal server. Every couple of weeks our users email signatures disappear and they have to recreate them. Does anybody know of a permanent fix for this? We tried http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918561 But our servers do not have the registry key. Thanks Paul

Hi, I am using the secondary monitor to have an eye on some management conole counters. Occasionally I minimize the MMC when switching tasks or something and have to bring it back up. Question: is there a utility that would pin a window and allow to set the mmc to always stay maximized (and not react on commands like "show desktop")? TIA for any hints! Regards DC

Was looking for some music and clicked on preview and WHAM - got da bug Used spyhunter adaware norton and spybot got most out I think But still have flashing icon in tray and file C:/WINNT/system32/drivers/etc/hosts is constantly busy so I cant put a block site entry in there. goggle showed me some sites which have software downloads to fix it http://removal-tool.com/antispycheck/ http://www.removeonline.com/remove-antispycheck Are they trustable sites since the bug came from purported bug fix site? Or are there other suggestions for fixing it? W2k IE6 all patches installed -- --------------------------------------------------------------- …

Just a quick note about a flaw in default policies which I've discovered: If used in the standalone-server role with no AD, Windows Server 2008 sets a default password policy enforcing complexity-rules, but NOT requiring a minimum length. This is an unsafe combination, and should be changed. Where useraccounts are created by way of a batchfile or script, this condition may lead to some or all accounts having null passwords. This fact may not be realised by the operator, but even if it is, it may then prove difficult to correct the situation. Example commands: C:\> net user fred /add Creates a new account with a null password. This should no…

Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print Slashdot - 3 minutes ago "I'll take another example: just before Microsoft launched Vista, it invited us [to work with it] so that Firefox works better on Windows Vista. ... More...

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Beim wiederholten Versuch, das Update KB946648 zu installieren, bekomme ich immer die lapidare Fehlermeldung "Der erforderliche Installationszweig wurde nicht in der INF-Datei gefunden". Was ist die Ursache? Wie kann ich das Problem loesen? Im voraus besten Dank. MfG Wassermann1940

I'm trying to clean up my hard drive and notice a lot of subfolders under c:\winnt\installer, they have names that are long series of numbers, and in these subfolders are files, some of which have names of programs I've installed. I'd like to know if it's essential to keep these files/subfolders, or if I can just delete them to save space. Does anyone know? John

Now that Beta 2 has released, I want to provide a short update on some of the smaller security changes the team has recently made. I’ve also linked to a great article on the IE8 XSS Filter implementation written by the architect of that feature. Restricting document.domain The document.domain property initially returns the fully qualified domain name of the server from which a page is served. The property can be assigned to a domain suffix to allow sharing of pages across frames from different hostnames. For instance, two frames running at app1.example.com and app2.example.com can script against one another if both frames set their document.domain to their common …

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Hello, I manage a webserver and to keep track of the performance and stability of this machine, I've created a Counterlog. This log writes it's data to a SQL database 24/7. Now and then the counterlog just stops. How can I make sure it will always keep running and it restarts itself when it is stopped? When the server is rebooted the log starts, so that's not the problem. I think it has something to do with loosing the connection to the database, but I have no proof for this. But when that db-connection is lost, or something else makes the log stop: how should I configure the log so that is starts again? I have scheduled it to start manually and stops …

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Is there any way to 'switch off' a keyboard on Win XP Pro and conversely, is there some way to switch it back on? It seems my main administrator profile has either been corrupted or somehow changed so that it does not recognise the keyboard. Other user profiles seem to work normally on the same hardware. I have tried to remove / reinstall the keyboard using Device Manager & tried to use an USB keyboard - all to no avail. I tried to copy the profile (sans the nti* files), but it is a pain to do so since I have to use the on-screen virtual keyboard to do so. Anyway, I have not been successful in transferring the old profile into a new profile. Bef…

So, I have a device connected at serial port and always on and sending data to the port. When XP restarts sometimes it understands it as mouse put driver on it and problems begin... Already tried fastdetect at boot.ini never helps - before at NT was NoSerialMice parameter, now it is substituted by fastdetect - but it never works. Could you recomend me how to solve this one? Can I turn off serial checking for mouse driver at all? Thx, Oleg

Since I Can't Work With Vista Because I Don't Know What To Do With Vista, I Am Going To Install Ubuntu Again And Maybe I Can Work With Ubuntu But I Think I Will Uninstall Ubuntu And Install Windows 2008 Server, RTM BFD. Just FYI Once I Do This I Will Then Start Over Again. Just FYI. Did I Say Just FYI?